At the ARC Advisory Group’s Industry Forum this year, Andy Young, Director of Remote Operations, with Pioneer Energy presented on the Role of Process Control at his company. Pioneer Energy is a relatively new entity, based in Colorado. It is a service provider and original equipment manufacturer that develops and deploys new technology to help solve gas processing challenges on the oilfield. Its business revolves around mobile gas processing trailers that the company operates remotely.

ABB India inaugurated two new facilities in May 2017 in Bengaluru - India’s first digitalized remote service center for its energy saving drives solutions and added a new production line for digitalized low voltage drives. The ABB remote service center will provide 24x7 access to information and support on drives installed at customer facilities for predictive maintenance and condition monitoring for all industries including power, cement, oil and gas, metals, food & beverage and many other applications.

Rockwell Automation’s decade-long OSIsoft partnership includes embedded storage technologies that the company uses in many of its products. Rockwell is focused on the IT/OT convergence and what it refers to as “The Connected Enterprise. According to the company, this involves moving data from intelligent devices seamlessly through the client’s organization to the people who need it in a way that is meaningful for them. Rockwell enables people to have access to information and data – when they want it, on whatever device they are using.

Siemens will implement Digital Fleet Center Solutions for Vedanta Ltd., India’s leading natural resources company, to connect its power plant assets at Talwandi Sabo Power Plant (TSPL) in Punjab and Bharat Aluminum Company Limited (BALCO) in Chhattisgarh. ’ Digital Fleet Center Solutions enable power plant fleet operators to seamlessly connect their power generation assets (turbines, generators, boilers and balance of plants), and leverage the power of vast amount of data generated by these machines.

Siemens is one of the world's leading providers of automation, control and electric drive technology for industry. Electric motors for industrial use have been manufactured at a Siemens site in Bad Neustadt, Germany for 80 years. Digitalization is playing an increasingly important role at this site. Hence, the company is turning the plant into a showcase factory for digitalization in metalworking.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., a global technology consulting and digital solutions company launched its new brand identity as LTI. Encapsulated in the tagline ‘Let’s Solve’, LTI looks to partnering with clients to help them compete better in a world where digital and physical are converging.

Siemens Healthineers has successfully installed India’s first fully automated Aptio Automation track with multidiscipline modalities at the Aspira Pathlab and Diagnostic Limited, Mumbai. The company’s strategic goal is to help healthcare providers worldwide to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments using products and solutions that increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Siemens Industry Software India and Polaris Softech have entered into a collaboration with the Rayat-Bahra Group, Punjab.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed to set up a Siemens Certified Professional Learning Center at the Rayat-Bahra Ropar campus.  This tie-up marks the beginning of a new era of industry-academia participation.

As part of the asset management services, L&T TS offers material and inventory management (MIM) solutions that help in simplifying the supply chain.  They provide solutions that give users consistent visibility and access to data, better traceability of material inventory, and opportunity to monitor and control costs in the entire material supply chain.

Infosys has been awarded the LEED EBOM (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - Existing Building Operation & Maintenance) Platinum certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) for its entire Infosys Pune Phase-2 campus. LEED Platinum is the highest and most stringent level of green rating for buildings; and this certification makes Infosys’ Pune campus the largest in the world to achieve this distinction.